Disney puts brakes on Selick’s stop-motion movie

The Walt Disney Company is not proceeding with Henry Selick’s still-untitled stop-motion animated film, crew members on the project were told Tuesday afternoon.

Known only as “Untitled Henry Selick 3-D Project,” it was scheduled for release October 4, 2013. About 150 San Francisco-based artists were ready to complete work on the movie, which started shooting last summer.

“I’d heard it just wasn’t coming together in a manner that pleased the studio,” said Deadline New York writer Mike Fleming.

Despite the project’s scrubbing, Selick is being allowed to shop the project to other studios.